Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two volcanoes today , Eldfell having been created by the 1973 eruption and joining Helgafell to create a twin pair of cones to the south-east of the new town . |
| 2 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 3 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 4 | The path was in fact too wide , the width having been determined by the machinery . |
| 5 | On the night of 16–17 March 1944 , for example , a ship left Funchal with a doctor and 1,206 Madeirans , all bound for Curação , their passage having been paid by the petroleum company . |
| 6 | The only relaxation in such cases must be that the Admissions Committee will not insist on the passes having been attained by the date the applicant left school . |
| 7 | She is an orphan , both her parents having been shot by the Germans . |
| 8 | P&O Group Head Office and Central Services staff who have completed one years service at 1 April following the year to which the incentive relates and who are in company service on the payment date , will be eligible for a bonus subject to a set target of profitability having been achieved by the Group . |
| 9 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 10 | Widely expected to have won last year 's Turner Prize , which was , in fact , awarded to Grenville Davey , Wilding is , nevertheless , enjoying a high profile , with a museum exhibition of ten sculptures from the last ten years having been organised by the Newlyn Art Gallery , where it was seen in March , and now transferred to IKON in Birmingham ( to 5 June ) . |
| 11 | Among the Bush campaign 's problems were the President 's lack of domestic achievements or a clear aims for a second term ; a shortage of tangible foreign policy achievements or objectives ( the success of the Gulf war having been marred by the continuance in power of Saddam Hussein ) ; the depressed state of the US economy ( unemployment figures released in July showed that the total without work had risen to 7.8 per cent ) ; continuing reservations over the choice of Dan Quayle as Vice-President ; and growing rumours that the President 's apparent lack of appetite for the election campaign was symptomatic of serious ill-health — although Bush sought to dispel the " crazy rumours " surrounding his campaign . |
| 12 | On March 15 the King formally appointed a 292-member National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) , the membership having been named by the NPKA . |
| 13 | The interim legislative body was condemned as phoney , membership having been determined by the Americans ; it contained no representatives of workers or peasants but instead represented the sordid interests of Korean capitalism . |
| 14 | When Banner treated its properties as investment properties in its 1990/91 accounts , auditors Stoy Hayward added to their report : ‘ Without qualifying our opinion above , we draw attention to note 8 which refers to the valuation of investment properties having been conducted by the directors at open market value assuming vacant possession ’ ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September 1991 , p 33 ) . |
| 15 | Britain does not have a national police force under the control and direction of a central government department , any such notion having been rejected by the Royal Commission on the Police in 1962 . |
| 16 | Drinks were served to members of the club by Taffe until the early hours of the morning , without any extension having been granted by the licensing magistrates . |
| 17 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 18 | Under its rights accumulation programme ( this approach having been endorsed by the IMF Interim Committee in May 1990 and first applied to Zambia in April 1991 ) , Peru could accumulate rights up to the equivalent of SDR207,900,000 ( US$282,000,000 ) by December 1991 . |
| 19 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 20 | Instantly switching targets , Angel One drove a quick punch at Satan 's flank as the dog fell back , his attack having been deflected by the forearm block . |
| 21 | Transportation had been virtually abandoned in 1853 and then abolished in 1857 , although with a great show of reluctance , the government 's hand having been forced by the refusal of the Australian colonies to accept any more convicts . |
| 22 | However , the origins of the practice are thought to pre-date Christianity in Britain , with earlier pagan fertility rites having been adapted by the Church in the fifth century . |
| 23 | The key to disqualification lay in ‘ episcopal ordination ’ and , MacManaway having been admitted by the laying on of hands of a bishop , he could not sit . |
| 24 | Maybe a visiting foreign seaman , whose unitiated brain having been blitzed by the local rough cider failed to appreciate a gem of cutting local humour . |
| 25 | Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon . |
| 26 | Should twelve months have expired from date of service , without judgment having been entered by the plaintiff on an admission , the action is struck out and can not be revived . |
| 27 | In the larger craters there will be some upward movement of the crater floor towards isostatic equilibrium , material having been removed by the impact over a wide region . |
| 28 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |